Charlie Haden Quotes
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
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I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
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If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.
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You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.
